Skirt closure



Dec. 3, 1935. GQLDMAN I 2,023,132

SKIRT CLOSURE Filed Feb. 9, 1935 FIE E INVENTOR. Mar/7's fia/o marv WWI/(W ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT orrlcs SKIRT CLOSURE Morris Goldman, San Francisco, Calif. Application February 9, 1935, Serial No. 5,769

My invention relates in general to wearing apparel and is womens particularly concerned with means for providing an effective and desirable closure for a skirt.

An object of my invention is to provide a skirt closure which is suinciently inconspicuous and lacking in bulk to be located over a hip of the wearer where the body curvature is customarily relatively pronounced.

Another object of my invention is to provide a closure, preferably of which when closed will of its presence.

the slide fastener type, give no visual indication Another object of my invention is to provide a skirt closure which apparently is a continuation of one of the customary seams in the skirt.

A further object of my invention is to provide a skirt closure in which a slide fastener is utilized but in which strains which to dislodge or open by a member expressly for might ordinarily tend the slide fastener are taken that purpose.

A still further object of my invention is to provide a simple, easily replaceable skirt closure.

The foregoing and other the embodiment of the in drawing, in which installed, and readily objects are attained in vention shown in the Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a skirt of standard type, showing the skirt closure of my invention incorporated therewith.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged side elevation of the hip portion of the skirt of Fig.

1, showing in side elevation the skirt closure of my invention.

Fig. 3 is a cross-section,

the plane of which is indicated by the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a view comparable to Fig. 2 but showing the skirt closure in open or disengaged position.

In its preferred form the skirt closure of my invention incorporates a slide fastener, including a'pair of separable, interengaging members and a slide, in the hip portion of a skirt adjacent the terminus and alongside of a seam joining parts of the skirt, in such a way that the slide fastener is located entirely under material meeting at the seam, so that when the one of the sheets of fastener members are interengaged and the slide is in closed position the entirely concealed by the p slide fastener will be articular sheet of material; in addition to which there is a waistband having ends overlapping adjacent the slide when and open the slide of the f astener.

2 Claims. (01. 2235) In the skirt closure embodied as illustrated in the drawing herein, the environment is customarily a skirt 6 fabricated of at least two sheets of cloth I and 8, which customarily are joined by a line of stitching 9 to form a hip seam H extending from a point I! adjacent the bottom margin I 3 of the skirt to a higher point I 4 substantially' over the hip of the wearer. The seam 9 is preferably fabricated by turning the first fabric sheet 1 upon itself, as at iii, to provide two thicknesses of cloth, and comparably turning the sheet 8 upon itself, as at ll, likewise to provide at that point two thicknesses of cloth, the folds l9 and 2| so formed being placed adjacent each other and sewn together. 15

In order to effect a closure above the point 14,

I preferably employ a slide fastener 22 of a co mon type, which includes a pair of separable but interfitting members 23 and 24 which can be united or separated by movement of a slide 26 2 from an open position adjacent the point M to a closed position adjacent the top of the skirt.

In order not to disrupt the smooth external appearance of the skirt, and in order that the closure will be entirely unapparent; when closed, I preferably locate the slide fastener 22 so that when it is in closed position it is disposed alongside of the edge It, which in eifect continues the seam 9, and in particular underlies the sheet of material 1 almost in entirety. To this end the members 23 are joined to a tape 2'! which is united by lines of stitching 28 and 29 to the folded sheet of material I, and correspondingly the members 24 are provided with a tape 3! which is united by lines 32 and 33 of stitching to the folded second sheet of material 8. Preferably, the extent of the tape 3| is sufficient to provide a flap 34 which substantially abuts the edge of the tape 21, but the line of abutment is olfset or staggered with respect to the folds l9 and 40 2!.

When the slide 26 is in its lowermost or open position, the two sheets 1 and 8 can readily be separated, as shown in Fig. 4, for donning or doifing of the skirt 6, but when the slide is moved 45 upwardly to its closed position adjacent the top or upper edge of the sheets 1 and 8, then the sheets come into abutment and in fact slightly overlap, with the sheet 1 overlying the sheet 8.

Since the slide 26 is relatively large and itself 50 is somewhat conspicuous, being made of metal in contradistinction to the cloth of the skirt, and since any lateral or transverse strains exert some tendency to dislodge the closed slide, I provide means in addition to the slide fastener for holding the parts in closed relationship and ensuring that the fastener slide is concealed by overlying fabric. To this end there is secured to the sheets and I a waistband 4|, preferably of cloth, which is united by stitching 42 to the sheets I and 8 and is arranged with its opposite ends 43 and 44 of sufficient length to overlap. Additional fastenings in the form of buttons 46 and 41 are designed to engage buttonholes 48 and 49, respectively, in the overlapping ends of the waistband, so that the button 46 and its buttonhole 48 interengage to transmit any transverse or lateral strains from one to the other without permitting such strains to be transmitted to the slide fastener. Interengagement of the button 41 with its buttonhole 49, while not absorbing any substantial lateral strains, does ensure that the sheet I overlies the slide 26 when in closed position, and maintains a smooth contour of the skirt closure at its upper portion.

Since it is preferable to locate the closure as illustrated over the hip of the wearer, and since this portion of the skirt is subjected to considerable motion as the wearer moves about, it is important that the additional closures 46 and 4'! supplement the slide fastener in order to maintain the slide fastener concealed at all times and to maintain the sheets I and 8 in smoothly abutting and overlapping relationship.

While the present invention has herein been exemplified in a skirt closure, it is understood that the principles thereof are also adapted for use in garments generally and particularly in nether garments.

I claim:

1. In a nether garment having a body portion adapted to extend around the hips, a slit opening extending downwardly from the waist thereof, tapes carrying interfitting fasteners attached to the garment adjacent the edges of said opening, a slider for interlocking said fasteners, said garment edges overlapping at said opening in front of said interfltting members and slider, and a flap substantially covering said interlocked fasteners and slider and disposed beneath said overlapping edges.

2. In a nether garment having a body portion adapted to extend around the hips, a slit opening extending downwardly from the waist thereof, tapes carrying interfltting fasteners attached to the garment adiacent the edges of said opening, a slider for interlocking said fasteners, said garment edges overlapping at said opening in front of said interfltting members and slider, and a flap carried by the overlapped garment edges adapted to extend between said overlapping edges and said interlocked fasteners and slider.

MORRIS GOLDMAN. 

